The program automatically rewinds the tape, plays/imports it completely, then rewinds it again. Put in the tape, type a title and click Import.
#MINI DV BACKUP FULL#
It may not be Final Cut, but it does store the video at full quality (in the same DV format the camcorder uses) - and it does preserve the date and time information.īetter yet, iMovie has a completely automatic mode. Yes, iMovie, the simple video app that comes on every Mac. I finally decided that there was no solution but to start all over again - this time, using iMovie. But I’ll bet they’d like it if they had it.)
#MINI DV BACKUP PROFESSIONAL#
(Apple asserts that professional TV and film editors don’t need to know when something was shot. Final Cut ignores this information - doesn’t import it with the video.
#MINI DV BACKUP PRO#
I had decided to use Final Cut Pro since that app is for pros, I figured the quality of the transferred video would be pristine.īut one day in late summer, when we had transferred 85 hours of tapes, I was inspecting the transferred video when I received a horrible shock: there were no date stamps.Įxcept Final Cut. Little by little, my intern and I worked through the huge stack of original tapes (140, to be precise).Įach one-hour tape takes one hour to transfer, but you can do other things in the meantime, either on the computer or around the house, pausing every now and then to change tapes. So last summer, reluctantly, I bought a 1-terabyte drive and began transferring all my MiniDV tapes onto the computer, one at a time. In fact, even two hard drives - a master and a backup - costs less than tape. And hard-drive prices have dropped so much that hard-drive video storage (at about $1.20 an hour of video) costs even less than tape ($4 an hour). (I’ll be reviewing them soon.) You don’t have to worry about filling up your camcorder anymore, because dirt-cheap memory cards take the place of cassettes. You couldn’t record anything more until you got home from your vacation and emptied the video onto your computer.īut here’s what else has happened since November 2008: the quality of some tapeless camcorders now matches tape. Second, once the camcorder’s hard drive filled up, you were dead in the water. First, the video quality wasn’t as good as tape. Apparently, tapeless camcorders are the future.īut I’d always had three beefs with tapeless. Today, for example, Canon sells only a single tape model - which has been essentially unchanged for three years. And sure enough, one by one, the camcorder companies eliminated tape camcorders from their lineups. Apple restored the FireWire jack to the next generation of MacBook Pro laptops, a concession to the public outcry (though Apple’s two lower-powered models are still FireWire-free). Since that phone call, a lot has happened. In eliminating the FireWire jack from Macs, Apple was just reflecting the new reality.
He told me that the electronics companies had already stopped developing tape camcorders. Ten years from now there won’t be a camera left that can play them.” “You know what? By the time you retire,” he said, “there won’t be a camcorder left that can play them.
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